‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ [‎163] (212/470)

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# C hap . IX. The V oyages of lohn stmys 1 ^3
"i Above ypajiligorod begins the Land of the which
r*®!] extends it felf out as far as Cafan. Thofe again are divided into two l66 9»
forts of People} T he one fort is called T^agorni, which are thofe that
inhabit the hilly Countrey, and the other Lugolvy who dwell moftly
in the Valleys.The former follow altogether Pafturage.the latter Agri
culture, for which they have a happy Land , blelTed with a fertile Soil.
ipS®! The Inhabitants are a rude and barbarous People, utter ftrangers to
c wProi< good Manners and Learning. They fpeak for the rnoft part the
^) asii Language, but fome places there are where they fpeak and
^\i wisk in other places they have a peculiar Tongue of their own. They are
tiyfeoip the moil ftupid Heathens that I have yet feen in all my 3 Voyages,
have neither Sence nor light of a Divine Power. Houfes of Worfliip,
and Priefts, Refurre&ion, Heaven and Hell are things they never
heard of, nor nor will ever learn to know what they are. However I
may not be fo general but that I may except fome , who have fome
light and knowledge of an immortal God, and fuch an one as has the
direction of all, but only rules them as a King upon Earth does his
Subjects. They are further of Opinion that there are Devils or evil
M 33; Spirits, whofe power is limited and circumfcribed , and that they
' cannot do any mifchieffaveonly-in this Life , for thefe doubt much
about the Refurrection, and for this end they do Sacrifices to them
as do the Madagafcars that they fliould do them no harm. They tell
you of a ftrange W ater by the means whereof the Prince of the Devils
comes in horrible and moft ugly fliapes , for which they dread , as
Children do Bugbears they never-faw. To that Immortal Deity and
divine EfTence they offer up all manner of Beafts as Oxen , Horfes,
and Sheep, which when they do, they take the Hide and ftretchk
out upon a Rack made on purpofe^making thereby a Fire, over which %
they hang the Flefh to boil, When it has feethed long enough, they
take out a Bowl ofthe Pottage in the one hand , and a Bowl of Me-
theglin in the other,and throw them both upon the Hide, upon which
(tlicEi" it falls into the Fh^faying , Accept, Hands,
xitltf 1 and he ^leafed to hear my Praters j which Praiers do commonly import
Pub of' their own Health, or the increafe of their Cattel. So that their main
called Opinion about that God, is only that he is a good-natur'd and bene
volent Lord , and the Devil malevolent, which is all that may be
gathered from them. Others I have feen who worihip the Sun,
X 2 Fire,
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